A dynamic chart to explore several indicators over time. The chart is rendered within the browser using Flash.
XML is used as datasource for motion chart instead of google spreadsheet.
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
google.load('visualization', '1', {'packages':['motionchart']});
google.setOnLoadCallback(getXMLData);
function getXMLData() {
url = "XML data url here"
if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Non-IE browsers
req = new XMLHttpRequest();
req.onreadystatechange = drawChartData;
try {
req.open("GET", url, true);
} catch (e) {
alert("Problem : " + e);
}
req.send();
} else if (window.ActiveXObject) { // IE
req = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
if (req) {
req.onreadystatechange = drawChartData;
req.open("GET", url, true);
req.send();
}
}
}
function drawChartData() {
if (req.readyState == 4) { // Complete
if (req.status == 200) { // OK response
var reqResponse = req.responseXML;
var xmlItems = reqResponse.getElementsByTagName("item")
//alert(xmlItems[i].getElementsByTagName("item1")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
var data = new google.visualization.DataTable();
data.addColumn("string", "Country");
data.addColumn('date', 'Year');
data.addColumn('number', 'Projects');
data .addRows(xmlItems.length);
for (var i = 0; i < xmlItems.length; i++) {
//alert(xmlItems[i].getElementsByTagName("year")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
data .setCell(i, 0, xmlItems[i].getElementsByTagName("country")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
data .setCell(i, 1, new Date(xmlItems[i].getElementsByTagName("year")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue));
data .setCell(i, 2, Number(new Number(xmlItems[i].getElementsByTagName("projects")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue)));
}
//alert(data.getValue(0,0));
var chart = new google.visualization.MotionChart(document.getElementById('chart_div'));
chart.draw(data, {width: (screen.availWidth-50), height:(screen.availHeight-250)});
}
} else {
//alert("Problem: " + req.statusText);
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="chart_div" width="100%" height="90%">
<table width="100%" height="100%"><tr><td height="80%" width="100%" align="center" valign="center">
<img src="Loading Image URL"></img>
</td></tr></table>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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XML format shoule be as shown below
<items>
<item>
<country>India</country>
<year>12/24/2009</year>
<projects>2000<projects/>
</item>
<item>
<country>USA</country>
<year>12/24/2009</year>
<projects>4000<projects/>
</item>
</items>